Micron Technology has announced an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Virtensys Ltd., a provider of PCIe-sharing solutions based in Manchester, England and Beaverton, Ore. The move helps Micron to strengthen their storage portfolio as they fold in Virtensys’s PCIe virtualization technology. Micron currently offers the RealSSD P320h PCIe SSD solution in 350Gb and 700GB capacities.
Micron Technology has announced an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Virtensys Ltd., a provider of PCIe-sharing solutions based in Manchester, England and Beaverton, Ore. The move helps Micron to strengthen their storage portfolio as they fold in Virtensys’s PCIe virtualization technology. Micron currently offers the RealSSD P320h PCIe SSD solution in 350Gb and 700GB capacities.
Few other details have been made publicly available. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the month.
Clearly intellectual property and storage solutions around the PCIe space is hot right now. The Micron deal seems a near direct response to OCZ making a similar acquisition earlier this month in their purchase of Sanrad. Micron, OCZ, Fusion-io, LSI, Virident and others are all battling it out as data centers find creative ways to leverage PCIe-based storage solutions to increase throughput and reduce latency in high-demand applications.
